Evaluating a neural network decision-support tool for the diagnosis of breast cancer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 934 LNAI, Issue , 1995, Pages 239-250

  Downs, Joseph ^a   Harrison, Robert F ^a   Cross, Simon S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; HIGH QUALITY; INPUT FEATURES; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISEASES; TOOLS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0343016995     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-60025-6_141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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